page_title: All-for-Ireland League
section_title: League's Anthem
hierarchical_section_title: All-for-Ireland League / League's Anthem
caption_attribution_description: THE ONE, AND ONLY HOPE, an illustrated newspaper image on the front page of William O'Brien's newspaper "The Irish People", illustrating the principles of his new political movement, the All-for Ireland League, founded March 1909 in Kanturk County Cork. It reflects O'Brien's concept of a union in Ireland of all creeds and classes on the path to "United Ireland a Nation" (distant background). The individual sashes worn by those shown standing on the right under Erin's All for Ireland banner are (l.-r. front): Landlord, Tenant, Sinn Feiner, Parliamentarian, Independent Orangeman, Nationalist, (rear): Catholic, Protestant, Peoples of ....
context_page_description: The All-for-Ireland League was an Irish, Munster-based political party. Founded by William O'Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned on the historically difficult aim of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland. The AFIL established itself as a separate non-sectarian party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, binding a group of independent nationalists MPs to pursue a broader concept of Irish nationalism, a consensus of political brotherhood and reconciliation among all Irishmen, primarily to win Unionist consent to an All-Ireland parliamentary settlement.
context_section_description: A L L – F O R – I R E L A N D
  All for Ireland ! One and all !
  
  Here we meet at Erin's call --
  
  Meet, to pledge with heart and hand,
  
  True fealty to our native land.
  Many-minded though we be,
  
  In this pact we all agree --
  
  We must end the reign of wrong
  
  That's wrecked our country's life so long.
  Hostile sections in the past,
  
  We shall now be friends at last:
  
  All our classes, clans and creeds
  
  Rivals but in patriot deeds.
  Here we come at Erin's call,
  
  From cottage home, and stately hall,
  
  For her rights to stand or fall --
  
  ALL FOR IRELAND !  ONE AND ALL !
  T.D.S.
caption: "The Irish People" March 1909 and O'Brien's vision:
  United Ireland a Nation – The One, and Only Hope!
  (sashes l-r): Landlord, Tenant, Sinn Féiner, Parliamentarian, Catholic, Protestant, Independent Orangemen, Nationalist . . .
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